Sri Lanka Latest News: Police fired tear gas and a water cannon at thousands of protesters outside the home of Sri Lanka’s President Thursday, demanding he resign over the nation’s worst economic crisis. Police later enforced a curfew in suburbs of the capital because the protests wouldn’t subside. The protesters blamed President Gotabaya Rajapaksa for long power outages and shortages of essentials and shouted, “Go home, Gota go home.”Sri Lanka Latest News: Police fired tear gas and a water cannon at thousands of protesters outside the home of Sri Lanka’s President Thursday, demanding he resign over the nation’s worst economic crisis. Police later enforced a curfew in suburbs of the capital because the protests wouldn’t subside. The protesters blamed President Gotabaya Rajapaksa for long power outages and shortages of essentials and shouted, “Go home, Gota go home.”